2011年4月7日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Education News


NYC schools chancellor quits after 3 months on job (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 03:41 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 6, 2011 file photo, New York City Schools Chancellor Cathie Black applauds during a ground breaking ceremony for the new site of Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy in New York.  Black resigned Thursday, April 7, 2011, after a rocky three months that included parents heckling her at board meetings, plummeting poll numbers and the departures of several deputy chancellors. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)AP - The city's embattled schools chancellor resigned Thursday after three contentious months on the job, the latest in a series of third-term setbacks for Mayor Michael Bloomberg and a defeat of his bid to hire a business-minded outsider like himself for a top job.


NJ Gov. Christie calls for peer teacher evaluation (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 03:14 PM PDT

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie discusses his education proposals at an event with the Brookings Institution titled '2011: The Year of Education Reform' in New York Thursday, April 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)AP - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday called for public school teachers to be evaluated based equally on their classroom performance and student achievement and accused the state's largest teachers union of being a group of "bullies and thugs."


New Jersey governor says urban schools lack "hope" (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 02:44 PM PDT

Reuters - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie outlined a plan to improve inner-city schools on Thursday, saying it required a Republican leader to fix a system dogged by failure.

Bloomberg's embattled New York schools chief quits (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 02:37 PM PDT

New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks during a ceremony to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York March 25, 2011. REUTERS/Lucas JacksonReuters - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's embattled education chief has resigned just three months after taking the job, dealing him another political setback as his approval ratings fall in his third term.


Consumers borrow more for student loans, new cars (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 01:48 PM PDT

AP - U.S. consumers borrowed more money in February to buy new cars and attend school, but they cut back on using their credit cards to make purchases.

Colleges Bring Campuses to Facebook (U.S. News & World Report)

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 09:36 AM PDT

U.S. News & World Report - Times have changed in college admissions. Gone are the days when a prospective student could be targeted, contacted, and recruited all with a single pamphlet in the mail. High schoolers can now learn a wealth of information about a university just by logging onto Facebook and peering into conversations taking place.

South Africa worries over rising teen pregnancy (AFP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 09:04 AM PDT

A pregnant woman walks around the Askham community health care clinic in Askham village in the Kalahari, Northern Cape in 2010. South Africa has the world's largest HIV-positive population, with 5.7 million of its 48 million people infected with the virus. That creates an added threat that has prompted health officials to rethink AIDS and pregnancy prevention programmes targeted at the youth.(AFP/File/Paballo Thekiso)AFP - A puffy-faced teenage girl strikes a lonely figure as she walks home from school, her short uniform skirt loosened on the side to make room for her growing baby bump.


Yale forms committee to address sexual misconduct (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 07:38 AM PDT

AP - Yale University has created a committee to address allegations of sexual harassment and other misconduct. The announcement comes as federal officials investigate a complaint by students that the Ivy League university failed to adequately respond to such concerns.

2 NJ chaperones charged with student sex on trip (AP)

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 06:47 AM PDT

AP - Two Roman Catholic school workers from New Jersey have pleaded not guilty to charges of having sex with female students during a high school's class trip to Germany.

Did Amy Chua's Daughter Really Need a Tiger Mom to Get Into Harvard? (Time.com)

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 02:40 AM PDT

Time.com - Now that her eldest cub is bound for the Ivy League, the Tiger Mom has been tamed

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